The Social Life of Words av Laura Wright

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<p><b>A new approach to sociolinguistics, introducing the study of the social meaning of English words over time, and offering an engaging and entertaining demonstration of lexical sociolinguistic analysis </b><p><i>The Social Life of Words: A Historical Approach</i> explores the rise and fall of the social properties of words, charting ways in which they take on new social connotations. Written in an engaging narrative style, this entertaining text matches up sociolinguistic theory with social history and biography to discover which kind of people used what kind of word, where and when. Social factors such as class, age, race, region, gender, occupation, religion and criminality are discussed in British and American English. <p>From familiar words such as <i>popcorn</i>, <i>porridge</i>, <i>caf¿i>, to less common words like <i>burgoo</i>, <i>califont</i>, <i>etna</i>, and phrases like <i>kiss me quick</i>, <i>monkey parade, slap-bang shop</i>, <i>The Social Life of Words</i> demonstra